Paris Attacks Won't Stop U2 Paris Concert
NEW YORK (CBS-SF) – Calling it "joy as an act of defiance," Bono says U2's concert will go on as planned in Paris as the city recovers from a deadly terrorist attacks.
Talking with the Associated Press, Bono said the attacks were "not going to change the character of the city of Paris."
"Well, knowing our French audience and having a sense of them by now, I would say joy as an act of defiance," he told the wire service of what concert-goers can expect when U2 performs at the AccorHotels Arena on Dec. 6-7. "That's what U2 does, that's what French people want from us and that's it."
Bono also had praise for the U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal, which was performing at the concert theater Bataclan where the gunmen took hostages and killed several concert goers.
"We're very, very of course moved by the fact that our fellow troubadours, the Eagles of Death Metal, had such a hard time; they're an extraordinary talented band, they've been through the most ugly nightmare and they have been very
Bono said to those frightened by the Paris attacks and fearful of attending concerts: "Be vigilant, but be unafraid."
U2's Dec. 7 show will broadcast on HBO.
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